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Movies that feel likeThe Conjuring 2 (2016)

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

If you loved The Conjuring 2, the closest films we have are Annabelle: Creation (2017), Insidious (2011) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). All three share The Conjuring 2's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Terrifier 2 (2022).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Wandreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Conjuring (2013) · The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%★ 6.5horrorMax

A patient build from small wrongness to full demonic siege

The difference: No Warrens to hold onto — the victims face it alone

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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Insidious
2011 · dir. James Wan
🍅 66%★ 6.8horror · thriller

A family haunting that escalates into a rescue from the other side

The difference: Its astral back half gets weird where the Warrens stay grounded

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

A period seance scam that invites in something horribly real

The difference: Slower family tragedy — fewer set pieces, more mourning

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Terrified
2018 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranormal investigation

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: demon

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%★ 6.9horrorPrime VideoPeacock

A mother trapped in something malevolent she can't explain

The difference: A time-loop puzzle, not a haunting — it rewards thought, not jumps

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%★ 6.2horror

Wan's earlier ghost story, built on the same creeping stagecraft

The difference: Pulpier and sillier — horror-comic tone, not casefile gravity

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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The Nun
2018 · dir. Corin Hardy
🍅 24%★ 5.4horrorMax

The Conjuring 2's demon given its own gothic origin story

The difference: Atmosphere over story — the scares are louder, the people thinner

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

Demonic evil crashing into ordinary lives mid-celebration

The difference: A gory Spanish wedding riot — chaos, not slow-burn haunting

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%★ 6horrorPrime Video

Common ground: halloween

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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X
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 94%★ 6.5horrorPrime VideoMax

Both land dread and unease at once

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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